Virginia is for Lovers

Day 13 - August 8, 2019 

(Another day from the 2019 trip -- I need to finish this so I can take another trip!) 

Leaving Suffern, we get quickly into New Jersey and go down in elevation. Our first stop is at a rest area in Williams Township PA, which features the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. It is a beautiful building, and we stop to take a look.

Unlike traveling across Texas, we go through several states in one day's journey. Below are some of the sights we see on our way to Salem VA, some of which are in New Jersey.   Two of my favorite things are trees and rock.  I can't pass up a photo op.

                                                    

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Tunnels fascinate me.

Stopping at the Welcome Center in Stephenson VA, we are reminded that "Virginia is for Lovers."

  

I wonder why the flag is at half mast, but no-one seems to know.

A closer look at the 'Welcome to Virginia' plaque shows an inscription that I read and quote below: 

                                           Wayne A. Whitham 

                                                Rest Area 

                                                    -- 

Wayne A. Whitham served with Honor and Distinction as Virginia's first Secretary of Transportation from 1972 - 1978. This facility is dedicated in His Memory by a Grateful Commonwealth. 1984

Willie of Sweet Georgia Brown

   and of Walldog and Willie

   August 8, 2019